Bio:

Charismatic and strong if intellectually inflexible, the young Paladin of the New Faith, most recently affiliated with the Temple of the Searing Light in Gar. Aldan represents the vanguard of the Faith; eager to enforce morally absolutist tenets with strong proclamations, cold steel, and the light of his gleaming Hero’s Harness.

The New Faith tests its proudest adherents harshly — bound by a litany of restrictions and requirements, Aldan’s is a life of endlessly atoning for temptation and the whims of fate; he is sworn to 1) always undertake quests for the Faith, fickle as it is, no matter how hopeless or impossible; 2) never touch meat or flesh; 3) remain ever clean and spotless; and 4) never come in contact with a woman. It is the last of these made most troublesome by his Curse of Venus, which draws the eyes of the most beautiful maidens and matrons and into an (unwilling and spiritually draining) embrace. Other restrictions drift his way but such is the joy of righteous service.

Aldan’s Back Talker sword grants him the power to smite those who have drawn his blood, but contains a sinister intelligence which increasingly compels him to violence. The longer it stays sheathed once it is drawn nothing good can come of it.